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Author(s): Birna Bjarnason-Wehrens , Sandra Schmitz , Sigrid Dordel Added: 3 years ago
Congenital malformations of the heart and vessels occur in five to nine per 1,000 live births.1,2 Some of these malformations (10–15%) do not require correction. Between 70 and 80% of defects can be corrected, and an increasing number of therapeutic procedures can be performed by interventional catheterisation techniques, avoiding the need for open heart surgery.1 Definitive therapeutic… View more

Heterogeneous Populations
Author(s): Erkki Juhani Pesonen , Petru Liuba Added: 3 years ago
Mounting evidence suggests that atherosclerosis begins in early childhood,1,2 possibly already during foetal life.3 This underscores the importance of primary prevention in early life. As many people suffering from atherosclerotic disease lack conventional risk factors (e.g. heredity, dyslipidaemia, smoking, obesity, diabetes and hypertension), interest has gradually increased in research on 'non… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Robert Dalla Pozza , Susanne Bechtold Added: 3 years ago
Atherosclerosis and atherosclerosis-related complications such as coronary, cerebrovascular and peripheral arterial disease show their clinical manifestation in adulthood. However, changes at the endothelial level do not occur suddenly in the elderly, but are the result of a long, on-going, slowly evolving process. We know from autopsy studies that atherosclerotic processes begin in childhood and… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Ephraim B Beck , Claudia Walther , Antje Körner , et al Added: 3 years ago
In developed countries cardiovascular diseases – including coronary heart disease with acute myocardial infarction and ischaemic heart failure, stroke and chronic cerebrovascular disease, aortic aneurysm, valve disease and peripheral arterial occlusive disease – are by far the main cause of death. Since first cardiovascular events are usually seen in mid-life and old age, atherosclerosis has long… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Job title: Staff Cardiologist, Interventional Cardiology
DrBenson graduated from the Chicago Medical School in 1974. His first two years of paediatric training took place at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto,and in 1976 was senior resident at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. Subsequently, he returned to Toronto for Cardiology fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children,and in 1979 entered graduate school at UCLA Medical… View more
Author(s): Rajarshi Banerjee , Paul Leeson Added: 3 years ago
There is a great concern among both health professionals and the public about the best way of managing the current explosion in adult and adolescent obesity. In the US, the prevalence of obese teenagers between 1980 and 2007 increased from 5 to 18 %1 and the UK has seen a similar trend, especially in boys (see Figure 1). Since a substantial proportion of obese teenagers become obese adults,2,3 it… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Job title: Consultant Paediatric Interventional Radiologist
Dr Premal A Patel is a Consultant Paediatric Interventional Radiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK. Hehas particular interests in vascular access, endovascular treatment of renovascular hypertension and management of vascular anomalies. Dr Patel qualified from St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London in 2003… View more
Author(s): Derk Jan ten Harkel , Maarten Witsenburg Added: 3 years ago
In recent years, there have been many advances in the diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias in children. This paper focuses on some of these advances, and gives an overview of relevant studies. Special attention is paid to technological advances that have created the possibility of using devices like an implantable loop recorder or an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in even small… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): András Szatmári , Ingrid Oberhänsli-Weiss Added: 3 years ago
Over the past 50 years, paediatric cardiology has developed as a subspeciality of paediatrics linked to adult cardiology and cardiovascular (CV) surgery. It deals with diseases of the heart and the circulation in growing individuals and patients with congenital CV malformations and acquired CV disease (CVD) from foetal life to adolescent and adult age. Worldwide, 800 to 1,000 per 100,000 newborns… View more

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